belted l, closed reversed epsilon (there was once also a closed omega), right-leg turned m, turned long-leg r (there was once also a long-leg r), double pipe, and the obsolete stretched c. Several non-English letters have traditional names: c cedilla, eth (also spelled edh), engma or eng, schwa (also spelled shwa), exclamation mark, pipe. Other symbols are unique to the IPA, and have developed their own quirky names: fish-hook r, ram's horns, bull's eye, esh (apparently never 'stretched s'), ezh (sometimes confused with yogh), hook-top heng. The is usually called by the sound it represents, glottal stop. This is not normally a problem, because this symbol is seldom used to represent anything else. However, to specify the symbol itself, it is sometimes called a gelded question mark. This latter name is derived from its original form as a dotless question mark in a fashion reminiscent of gelding. Diacritic marks Traditionally named diacritics acute, macron, grave, circumflex, wedge or háček, diaeresis or umlaut, breve, (superscript) tilde, plus variants such as subscript tilde, superimposed tilde, etc. Non-traditionally named diacritics seagull, hook, over-cross, corner, bridge, inverted bridge, square, under-ring, over-ring, left half-ring, right half-ring, plus, under-bar, arch, subscript wedge, up tack, down tack, left tack, right tack, tie bar, under-dot, under-stroke. Diacritics are alternately named after their function: The bridge is also called the dental sign, the under-stroke the syllabicity sign, etc. References Pullum, Geoffrey K., and William A. Ladusaw. 1996. Phonetic Symbol Guide, 2nd edn. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. External links Unicode-HTML codes for IPA symbols: Tables of symbol names and HTML codes at PennState. International Phonetic Alphabet Unicode International Phonetic Alphabet